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September’s Quiet Before the Lagos’ Art Storm
Sep 13, 2026
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September’s Quiet Before the Lagos’ Art Storm

This year’s creative arts season (Oct-Nov) is creeping in. I’m already getting emails from galleries announcing exhibitions and trying to keep up with a torrent of posters in WhatsApp groups I belong to, pushing other programmes, not to mention what Read more →
JRT & Spanish Embassy Team Up for Jos Festival of Theatre 2026
Aug 12, 2026
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JRT & Spanish Embassy Team Up for Jos Festival of Theatre 2026

The Jos Repertory Theatre (JRT) is collaborating with AECID Spain and the Embassy of Spain, Nigeria to host this year’s Jos International Festival of Theatre (JFT) Read more →
Sun, Guns and Horses!
May 24, 2026
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Sun, Guns and Horses!

Every time the Ojude Oba festival holds in Ijebu Ode (Ogun State), usually on the third day after the Eid-el-Kabir celebrations, indigenes, their friends and families, who live within and outside the state, gather in their numbers to observe a tradit Read more →
The Badagry Route
May 24, 2026
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The Badagry Route

Anyone can understand why callers to the slave ports at Elmina (Ghana), Goree (Senegal) and Ouidah (Benin) weep and wail after they have walked round the remains of the transatlantic slave trade in those regions. To even see images on the screen is e Read more →
A Day of Birdwatching at Tarkwa Bay with Lekki Bird Club
May 21, 2026
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A Day of Birdwatching at Tarkwa Bay with Lekki Bird Club

Almost halfway through the walk, we hear a string of whistles to our left. A few of us stop, move closer and lean forward, hoping to catch a glimpse of the bird making the sound. “That’s the Yellow-crowned Gonolek,” Tayo Okunaiya says with the tone Read more →